The Jackal

Cold War nostalgia drives this loose reworking of 1973's DAY OF THE JACKAL, a globe-trotting thriller about a mercenary assassin on a mission and the man who stops him. Hired by a vengeful Russian gangster to send a message to the U.S., the Jackal (Bruce Willis) begins plotting the assassination of a high-profile government figure with the meticulous care for which he's known. Meanwhile, an international task force that includes Russian intelligence officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora), FBI bigwig Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and former IRA gunrunner Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere) -- for whom they bend every rule in the book to spring from some maximum secur...